• The current state of the Arctic carbon cycle

      disrupt its balance. An international research team headed by the Alfred Wegener Institute and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam has presented a comprehensive analysis of the current state of the Arctic

    • 25 years of the deep-sea observatory AWI-HAUSGARTEN

      For the past 25 years, the Alfred Wegener Institute has operated a long-term observatory in the Arctic deep sea: the HAUSGARTEN. Located between Greenland and Svalbard

    • Polarstern returns from the Arctic after a five-month journey

      , 14 October 2015 the research icebreaker Polarstern from the Alfred-Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), entered its homeport in Bremerhaven. Since mid-May, over

    • Programmed Multicopter Flies Through the Arctic Autonomously

      can’t provide reliable positioning data? Engineers on board the Alfred Wegener Institute’s research icebreaker Polarstern specially programmed a multicopter, allowing it to navigate despite the deviations

    • What calling and singing reveal about bowhead whales

      comes from researchers in the Ocean Acoustics Group at the Alfred Wegener Institute, who recorded the calls of bowhead whales using underwater recorders and analysed the records with artificial

    • Helgoland Transects

      transect (Photo: Inga Kirstein) graphic data longterm (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • UV workstations

      UV workstations UV hood workstations (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The UV workstations are designed for clean operations providing protection against contamination. They are equipped

    • PFC

      Fraction Collector Preparative fraction collector (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / J.Hefter) The preparative fraction collector (PFC) automatically collects single compounds after gaschromatographic

    • MIDO

      Observatory (MIDO) Illustration of a buoy observatory (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The properties of the atmosphere, sea-ice and the polar oceans, and feedbacks between these domains play an [...] awi.de Deployment of an ocean profilers in the sea-ice (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • SeaKey

      North Sea Coast [Translate to English:] Concept of SeaKey (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Enable identification of seaweeds for variable stakeholders and students on the basis of current scientific [...] 2021: Earth System Knowledge Platform ( www.eskp.de ); Alfred-Wegener Institute; since 2021: Landesamt für Umwelt, Flintbek, Kiel, Germany ( www.schleswig-holstein.de/DE/landesregierung